[zer00eyz]

Because product people need to validate their existence by adding features to put on their resume and show "progress", businesses are always trying to "grow"...

Our tech stacks are steaming piles of ass because applications are never "finished". We even do this ourselves, apps that dont get updates are looked down on more often than being seen as "complete"

[Nextgrid]

Worse, the problem is that the metric for this feature won't ever be "customers asked us for a mail client and are now paying us for a mail client". Instead, it will be "engagement" aka wasted human time, from people who now have to endlessly press "not now" to dismiss popups for a feature they didn't ask for and have no need for.

[jjice]

Most software is "finished" at some point, but it just keeps going. Spotify is a great example. If they kept it as it was from like three for four years ago and just let me keep streaming, that would have been perfect. I'm fine with a subscription for a hosted service with no features being added. I don't think VCs like to see that though.

[devbent]

The addition of lyrics a year or two back was nice.

I'm confused as to why their TV app doesn't have a visualizer. Seems that would be an obvious add.

[pohuing]

I could swear lyrics were a thing ten years ago as an app in Spotify

[jjice]

Yes! Part of my disdain for Spotify recently is because they removed lyrics about six years ago and when you clicked the button, it started saying "lyrics will be back soon". Then that button disappeared for like five years...

[duskwuff]

Lyrics are notoriously difficult to license. If I had to guess, I'd say they disappeared for legal reasons, not because there was a lack of will from the product/tech side.

[zer00eyz]

I like Spotify.

It suffers a lot of the same problems that iTunes did...

Features dont fit in the UI so they all get "grafted" in.

If your on a playlist that isnt yours, there is not a good way to figure out the year the song is from (is it new, is this from the 60's ... ). Then its 3 clicks to get back to your current play list.

They need to figure out what the next 5 years of feature are and build a UI redesign that will support that + more.

[mmmmmbop]

> If your on a playlist that isnt yours, there is not a good way to figure out the year the song is from (is it new, is this from the 60's ... ). Then its 3 clicks to get back to your current play list.

Right-click song, go to album, look at album year (2 clicks).

Click back button. (1 click)

[zer00eyz]

I just went and looked, it's 2 clicks from the "current song playing" in the lower left. Click on the song NAME and it will take you to the album and then back to the playlist.

If you click on the album art it opens the "now playing" window. That has some credits but not the year of publication. (and is missing publisher, producer unless that's part of the "artist" info..)

Mind you if your looking at your play list, the album art and song title are not clickable, but the artist is? The album is listed in playlist and clickable. (so none of this behaves like current playing song in lower left though it looks the same).

What is the point of the now playing window? Big album art? Selling me stuff that I never scroll down to see?

[jorzel]

Yeah, totally agree. We love to make wrong things righter.